A text-only mailing list for Unix systems programming in Ruby
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Original discussion/introduction about this list started in ruby-talk:
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/387469

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[1]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html